Posted on 06/17/2017 5:15:12 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Turkish troops have crossed the border into Southern Kurdistan. Clashes that erupted upon the response of guerrillas continue.
Turkish troops moving in Çukurca district of Hakkari have crossed the border into Southern Kurdistan last night. During clashes that erupted upon the response of guerrillas, 14 soldiers have been killed. Clashes and Turkish airstrikes continue in several locations.
ANF reporters on the ground provided the following details:
Turkish fighter jets started to shell Çukurca borderline at 20:00 Friday evening. Turkish troops started to move and crossed the border following the aerial strikes. Heavy clashes erupted between guerrillas and Turkish soldiers that targeted Martyr Munzur, Small Cilo and Qela Bedewê areas.
Turkish soldiers entered a location where guerrillas had laid explosive traps before. Explosions and crossfire by guerrillas left 14 soldiers dead here. Guerrilla sources report that the number of soldiers killed here could be higher.
Military activity continues towards Biznê and Qela Bedewê areas in the same region. Turkish soldiers are trying to advance but cannot, due to the response and intervention of guerrilla forces.
Intense ground and aerial activity in the mentioned region continues.
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There is no Kurdistan because nobody has recognized them. There ought to be. So let’s recognize them.
There is no Palestine, though several countries and the UN General Assembly has twice recognized them. But they haven’t done the necessary work to build a state, merely demanded recognition.
The Kurds are better than that. All that remains is for them to declare themselves a state, and other states to recognize them. Not necessarily in that order.
I’m pretty confident we will witness that before the end of this year in some form.
Erdogan needs anothjer bloody nose, a bad one. He is going to keep pushing until he is stopped.
I’m about to post an article. Will ping you when it is up. It is exactly next step in what you described.
Here is the article:
HPG: Turkish army was dealt heavy blow at Çukurca border
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3562004/posts
Turkish fighter jets started to shell Çukurca borderline
It is a translated (not machine translated) article. Turks used air assaults as well as tanks and personnel carriers for the attack. They have both ground and air components. I suspect from the wording that the ground component has howitzer support. Probably from within Turkey’s borders.
Also see my post #26
Link there is later coverage.
Kurd/Turkey Ping
Prepare for the time it WILL go into that sidebar. :) Everyone will need some help getting over the shock. Short and sweet though. You have tons of info. OH! Now I know why they call it a “brief..ing” LOL
smile.
Sure hope so. Only solution to the Suni resurgence is to divide them and help out eastern minorities, such as Kurds, Copts, Israelis, Chaldaean Christians, Alawites, etc.
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